"Hand Drawn" style maps...

[Irishmafia2020]

Just a quick question, how do you get the hand drawn style maps?
By that I mean, the style of the map that is in the tutorial, and which I have seen forum screen shots of otherwise. The maps I play on are typical randomly generated maps, but none of them have the "hand drawn" style of the tutorial... Is there an option to generate such maps?

[Gandalf Parker]

Nothing I know will "generate" such maps. Usually they are either drawn by an artist type, or found as images. Then you would add the boundaries and neighbor settings and terrains. Some people have used satellite photos, or "pirate map" drawings. But you could use any image. Even an image of some movie star if you wanted to.

[Gandalf Parker]

Hmmmmm but now that I think about it, if you took a generated map into a paint program and dropped the colors way down, then added a "sepia" or an "antiquing" special effect... then I guess it would come pretty close.

[Endoperez]

You'd have to copy the white pixels into another layer before adding the filters. Every pure white pixel (0,0,0) is a province center, and leaving any out will cause problems with the province numbering, and then the terrains will go awry and seas will be lands and mountains will be swamps etc etc.

[Tifone]

I would have really loved hand-drawn style random generated maps too. Not that I don't like the current ones. But the option would have been cool

[Sombre]

Originally Posted by Gandalf Parker

Hmmmmm but now that I think about it, if you took a generated map into a paint program and dropped the colors way down, then added a "sepia" or an "antiquing" special effect... then I guess it would come pretty close.

I don't think the result would actually look anything like the 'hand drawn' maps the game ships with. It would just look like a sepia version of whatever image you used.

[Tifone]

Someone tries and posts the result?

[Ballbarian]

You might find this thread interesting. Coinspinner_72 goes into some depth describing how he created the Primea map.

[Gandalf Parker]

Good find BB.
That one isnt bad. But if the map was dropped down to almost a 2-color image (black and white) then sepia'd Im thinking the result would look more like a pencil drawing.

There are also tools on many paint programs to try and do the same thing. Posterizing might help also (kills the details in order to make big solid-colored areas)

Something else people might look at is the old Dom2 3rd party map-generator called DomMap. You can set it for the colors you want. And either speckled or solid-colored provinces. The result is considered ugly now but since it creates a fairly useful map without added images then it would work to create a blank template to find and add your own images to.
http://www.dom3minions.com/~dominion...andomMaps.html
or even the stripped down "blanks" that Targa used to start with for his maps (also made with DomMap).
http://www.dom3minions.com/~targa/blanks/
You might also look at Harbringers new mapgen which can create template maps that are wrappable. Like these..
http://www.dom3minions.com/RandomMap...ll_Wrapped.htm
Add in some graphics from other programs and it can be a unique and very playable map

[lch]

I'm not so sure about what you mean, but if you mean that the texture of the map looks like it was painted on a canvas, then there are effects for that, for example Filters > Artistic > Apply Canvas in the GIMP, which gives this effect:

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If you use the GIMPressionist filter in the same category you have a bunch of options more. But maybe I installed that filter separately and it doesn't ship by default.